The Olympics of the Mind is the signature event of the NAACP New York City ACT-SO program. ACT-SO is an acronym for Afro-Academic Technological and Scientific Olympics. The goal of NYC ACT-SO is to inspire and encourage high academic and cultural achievement and to foster confidence and skills that high school students will need to thrive as adults. With 150 chapters nationwide, NAACP ACT-SO is the largest program dedicated to academic achievement of Black youth in the country.
Awards Ceremony is April 25:Operating under the administrative aegis of the NAACP - the nation’s oldest, largest, and most effective civil rights organization - NYC ACT-SO will host its 18th annual Olympics of the Mind competition on Saturday, April 23, 2005, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Manhattan’s Martin Luther King High School, 122 Amsterdam Avenue, between 65th and 66th streets. The VIP Reception (invitation only, 5 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.) & Awards Ceremony (open to the public with ticket purchase, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.) will follow on Monday, April 25, at con Edison, 4 Irving Place in Lower Manhattan.
Mind top three winners in each category receive a gold medal with $500 in cash, a silver medal with $300, and a bronze medal with $200. The gold medallists (among 1,200 gold medallists from local competitions across the country) advance to the national NAACP ACT-SO Olympics of the Mind to be held July 7-11 in Milwaukee, where the top three winners in each category receive a gold medal with $2000, a silver medal with $1,500, and a bronze medal with $1,000. Every national medallist also receives a fully-loaded laptop computer! There still is time for students to apply to compete!
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